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Imagine that we've been in the apartment by ourselves since the previous evening, and now, at the start of the weekend, it's 11 in the morning.
Представьте, что мы находимся в квартире одни с прошлого вечера, и сейчас, в начале выходных, одиннадцать утра.
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A succession of small bits of bad news have been coming in over the past 24 hours.
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Someone's unhappy with our performance at work.
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A customer complained about our attention to detail.
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We have a traffic fine to pay.
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The milk is off.
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A friend is accusing us of not caring enough about them.
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And then, the final straw, someone we very much hoped to see for dinner, cancelled on us abruptly, with an unconvincing excuse about their mother.
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We try to keep the different strands separate, but eventually, in the stillness of the small living room, they coalesce into an overwhelming impression.
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We're not very worthy.
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There's something wrong with us.
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We're ugly inside and out.
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We've been like this since the start.
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No one likes us.
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We're going to die alone, unhappy and mediocre.
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The impression is stronger than we are.
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We curl into a ball and can't hold back a tear, which rolls onto and is absorbed by the grey-green sofa.
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Ten minutes pass, then another twenty.
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Finally, we can't take it any longer.
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We have to pull ourselves out of the spin.
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So, with a newfound urgency, we grab our jacket, run downstairs and head for the nearby park.
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This expanse of green was laid out by a group of enlightened planners and municipal engineers a few generations ago.
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There's an inner and an outer circle, a small fountain, a playground and a statue of a man who pioneered research into bees.
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More importantly, the park has very little idea of us.
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It hasn't heard of our place of employment.
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It doesn't have any views on our romantic life.
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It couldn't care less whether we're alive or dead.
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And the ignorance, far from crushing us further, has an immediate soothing effect.
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A grand oak tree that's been sitting patiently in this spot for 150 years at least, has priorities blessedly far from our own.
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It's pulling nutrients from the soil, it's showing its freshest, newest leaves to the sun.
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It's providing a nesting place for robins and an athletic park for grey squirrels.
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The indifference is not nature's alone.
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There's a person in scrubs on a break from the nearby hospital, sitting on a bench with a flask of tea.
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They might later be fixing up catheters on the children's ward or ministering to a dying nonagenarian.
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To their left, a little boy is playing tag with his father.
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His joyful screams are unabashed.
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It's a game, but something very serious, about love and self-esteem and having a home, is also being exercised.
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Overhead planes, perhaps heading back from Singapore or Madrid, are locking onto the final approach beacons at the airport to the west.
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In the distance, a line of uncomplaining pylons is bringing in electricity from the coast to power hair dryers and video games.
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Our strange, extraordinary, pathetic species in all our glory, complexity and mundanity.
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With all this in view, it suddenly seems not to matter quite so much that we may or may not be a wretch, that a lover has let us down.
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Heaven knows they might have their reasons and we aren't perfect either.
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or that we should, in all fairness, probably make more of an effort with our career.
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The individual ego diminishes.
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We let ourselves dissolve into a wider realm.
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What happens to us no longer has to be the measure of everything.
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We are, in part, also the trees, the houses, the clouds overhead, the pigeon who has come to peck at a leftover sandwich,
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and the young boy now being hugged tightly by his dad.
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Our ultimate fate ceases to concern us so tightly.
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What does it matter quite so much what we're worth or where we end up?
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We rejoin the ocean from which we've been in frightened exile for too long.
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None of the elements that have helped us to recover our balance care to articulate a theory of existence.
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They may have one nevertheless.
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The oak tree has its own distinctive silent take on love, achievement, success and power, as do the clouds,
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the robins, the squirrels and the contrails.
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Each one of them is whispering very quietly indeed, matter less, forget more, open your heart, let go of your resentments, surrender.
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We can be so much happier
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when we manage for a time to still the clamour of the I and live less intimately with ourselves,
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when we stop insisting that everything that happens to us must say something profound about us, when we can wear our fate more lightly.
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We may end up alone, we may be foolish, we may be sad.
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None of it, the park tells us, might matter too much anyway.
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We'll cope, after all, perhaps we'll go to the cinema alone tonight, or have a drink on the terrace.
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We haven't just taken a walk, we've had a covert philosophy lesson.
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Лексика и советы по произношению к этому уроку
В этом видео 63 предложений и 840 слов для шедоуинга. Речь длится 5:01. Говорящий говорит в естественном темпе, около 167 слов в минуту, близком к повседневной речи. Только 78% слов входят в 3000 самых частых слов английского языка, поэтому лексика сложная.
Ключевая лексика этого видео
15 слов из видео, которые стоит выучить, с произношением и значением:
| Слово | Произношение | Значение |
|---|---|---|
| cloud существительное | /ˈklaʊ̯d/ | о́блако, ту́ча |
| fate существительное | /feɪt/ | судьба́, до́ля |
| impression существительное | /ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/ | отпеча́ток |
| robin существительное | /ˈɹɑ.bɪn/ | заря́нка, мали́новка |
| unhappy прилагательное | /ʌnˈhæpi/ | несча́стный, несчастли́вый |
| overhead существительное | /ˈəʊvəˌhɛd/ | накладны́е расхо́ды |
| tightly наречие | /ˈtaɪtli/ | те́сно, пло́тно |
| squirrel существительное | /ˈskwɪ.ɹ(ə)l/ | бе́лка, ве́верица |
| lesson существительное | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | уро́к, ле́кция |
| element существительное | /ˈɛləmənt/ | элеме́нт, звено́ |
| silent прилагательное | /ˈsaɪ̯lənt/ | ти́хий, молча́ть |
| romantic прилагательное | /ɹoʊˈmæn(t)ɪk/ | романти́ческий |
| soil существительное | /sɔɪl/ | земля́, по́чва |
| ugly прилагательное | /ˈʌɡli/ | безобра́зный, уро́дливый |
| priority существительное | /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/ | приорите́т |
Фразовые глаголы, которые вы услышите
| Слово | Значение |
|---|---|
| end up глагол | зака́нчиваться, зако́нчиться |
| hold back глагол | сде́рживать, сде́рживаться |
Грамматика в этом видео
Конструкции, которые говорящий использует чаще всего, с точными словами из видео:
| Конструкция | В видео |
|---|---|
| Present Perfect Continuous have/has been + -ing — действие началось раньше и продолжается | have been coming · that's been sitting |
| Present Perfect have/has + причастие прошедшего времени — прошлое действие, важное сейчас | we've been · hasn't heard · has let |
| Пассивный залог be + причастие прошедшего времени — важно, что происходит, а не кто это делает | is absorbed · was laid · are unabashed |
Произношение, на которое стоит обратить внимание
Говорящий использует 18 сокращённых и редуцированных форм, например we're, we've, can't. Произносите их коротко, так, как слышите.
- Звуки «th»: worthy /ˈwɝ.ði/, nevertheless /ˌnɛvɚðəˈlɛs/, athletic /æθˈlɛt.ɪk/, pathetic /pəˈθɛtɪk/, catheter /ˈkæθɪtɚ/
- Звуки «sh» и «zh»: impression /ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/, crush /kɹʌʃ/, succession /səkˈsɛʃ.ən/, foolish /ˈfuː.lɪʃ/, diminish /dɪˈmɪnɪʃ/
- Длинные слова — следите за ударением: electricity /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɪsɪti/, priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/, extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/, nevertheless /ˌnɛvɚðəˈlɛs/, municipal /mjuˈnɪsɪpəl/
Как заниматься с этим видео
- Прослушайте всё видео один раз молча и выпишите незнакомые слова.
- Начните со скорости 0,75×, повторяйте предложение за предложением и вернитесь к обычной скорости, когда станет легко.
- Запишите себя и сравните с оригиналом, обращая внимание на такие слова, как cloud, fate, impression.
Что такое техника Shadowing?
Shadowing — это научно обоснованная техника изучения языка, изначально разработанная для подготовки профессиональных переводчиков и популяризированная полиглотом доктором Александром Аргуэльесом. Метод прост, но эффективен: вы слушаете аудио на английском от носителей языка и немедленно повторяете вслух — как тень, следующая за говорящим с задержкой в 1–2 секунды. В отличие от пассивного прослушивания или грамматических упражнений, Shadowing заставляет мозг и мышцы рта одновременно обрабатывать и воспроизводить реальные речевые паттерны. Исследования показывают, что это значительно улучшает точность произношения, интонацию, ритм, связную речь, понимание на слух и беглость речи — что делает его одним из самых эффективных методов для подготовки к IELTS Speaking и реального общения на английском.